Save the ecumene

If humans were selfish enough to not care about the protection of many mammals and their ecosystems, and silly enough to not understand that the extinction of some ecosystems could lead to their own extinction, I still hope they understand that desertification and rising oceans affect directly the human activities by reducing their “territory”: The ecumene. Indeed, the Sahara and Atacama Deserts are not the most populated place and the inhabitant of the Atlántida could attest that cities are not fully waterproof yet.

The city of Malé

To those who think a little bit more than the uneducated consumers, they will understand that to shrink the ecumene increases the anthropic pressure on the other ecosystems. Indeed, the ecumene is not only the exclusive space of humans, but a space humanity share with many ecosystems. By shriking the ecumene and given the rapid population growth, the human densities are going to jump and the pressures on the ecosystems which share the ecumene with humanity are going to explode.

According to the IPCC, the rise of the oceans will be up to 98cm by 2100. More than six hundred million people would be directly affected; corresponding to the number of people who will need to move to other cities or to other countries. In what conditions will this happen? With which consequences on the ecosystems? On the economy? On the international relations? Though this blog, I try to explore these problems.